More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty."
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."